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Gruen, Ja’mie win their timeslots.

Ratings: ABC leads the night in entertainment shows, but Nine wins Wednesday.

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12psgABC1 shows were big winners last night with Gruen Planet the only entertainment show over the magic million at 1.07m and Ja’mie: Private School Girl with a strong debut at 924,000 viewers. Both won their timeslot.

Ja’mie also topped the demos in 16-39 and 18-49, but the night belonged to Nine in Total People

Nine network was 28.7% then Seven 27.3%, ABC 20.9%, TEN 18.5% and SBS 4.7%.

Nine News topped the night with 1.14m viewers. Also for Nine were A Current Affair (894,000), Big Brother (875,000), Hot Seat (602,000), Hostages (556,000) and CSI (415,000).

Seven News was (1.06m) for Seven then Today Tonight (998,000), Home and Away (841,000), Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (731,000), SlideShow was soft at 674,000, Million Dollar Minute was 460,000 and Highway Patrol was 383,000.

Following Gruen (1.07m) and Ja’mie (994,000), ABC1 shows were ABC News (796,000), 7:30 (683,000), Tractor Monkeys (507,000) and Agony Aunts (482,000).

At 7:30 TEN outranked Seven, which is a rarity with The Bachelor (676,000). But it began shedding viewers thereafter. TEN Eyewitness News was 607,000, The Project was 500,000, Wonderland was 499,000. NCIS: LA was 259,000 and The Simpsons was 244,000 in 4 cities.

Aliens of the Deep Sea (321,000) led SBS ONE then 24 Hours in Emergency (187,000), World News Australia (138,000) and Literary Landscapes (71,000).

The Big Bang Theory (322,000 / 306,000) was best on multichannels.

Sunrise: 404,000
Today: 320,000
ABC News Breakfast: 76,000 / 40,000

OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 23 October 2013

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  1. I really enjoyed Ja’mie & will be watching every episode. It’s too early to judge it against Summer Heights High, but some of the predictable negative comments here are a testament to Lilley because he really set the bar very high with his previous work.

    That said, from ABC’s point-of-view (even though it won its timeslot & had good demos), they’d be disappointed it didn’t do at least 1.5 million. ABC publicity really pushed Ja’mie to a lot of advertising & ‘interviews’ on commercial media outlets. Surely every man & his dog knew she was back?

    Jane, there’s meant to be a pay-off at the end of the series.

  2. Ja’mie was good, but not great. It had funny moment and he nails the character completely, but it just wasn’t as laugh out loud as it could have been. Still, it’s a huge step up from Angry Boys. I can’t help but think that Lilley would be better served doing a show in the vein of The Office, where he can do less of a “performance” and just focus on one specific more realistic character and surround himself with other funny characters, rather than non-actors who just react to what he’s doing.
    @maxxdude- there’s actually a Gotham City series without Batman in the pipeline! It’s going to be focusing on Jim Gordon’s rise through Gotham police and all the bad guys he puts away. It’s being done by The Mentalist’s Bruno Heller.

  3. Ja’mie wasn’t that great. I didn’t even laugh once. We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High had me laughing throughout.

    Ja’mie was just too boring. Probably won’t continue.

  4. Agents of SHIELD seems to be leeching viewers & if the chat online about the show is anything to go on I would say that it won’t have a long life. Could have been a great show but the reality of it existing in the Marvel world without the superstar superheroes makes it lame.
    It is like having a show set in Gotham City without Batman.

  5. Thought Ja’mie was hysterical. Lilly has turned up the notch on her loathability beautifully and I can’t wait for her to get her comeuppance. I’m barracking for the boarders to be the ones to give it to her!

    Wonderland is sadly, just Home and Away with an older cast. Looks good, great cast but the writing is a huge disappointment, particularly as a time slot successor to Offspring.

  6. Cross-dressing comedians have a long and distinguished pedigree in both Australia and the UK – but I wonder if time is up on this style of thinly-disguised misogyny? I hope Chris Lilley can escape this grotesque character, unlike Barry Humphries, sentenced forever to perform as the Dame.

  7. I tried watching Ja’mie when i switched over a few times but couldnt. I could not get over the fact that Chris Lilly is much older now and you can see it in his face obviously. i know its a commedy and he does play that character well but i just couldn’t get passed it. I think this should be the last season of this and other characters he has played over the last decade. Needs to move on to something else, something more convincing.

  8. We’ve been watching Wonderland each week but completely forgot about it last night. Perhaps too intent on recording L&O UK and S of A. As we didn’t seem to miss it, it may fall off the viewing agenda now.

  9. Huge fan of ‘We Can Be Heroes’ and ‘Summer Heights High’ but watching Ja’mie was excrutiating. Not saying it isn’t spot on social observation, but I was watching with three friends and we were all groaning with hands over our eyes, swearing not to return next week.

    There’s also something icky about how ridiculously hot the ‘quiche’ are, and how unchecked their bullying and racism.

    Don’t get me wrong. I loved WCBH and SHH trangressions of good taste, that many were outraged by. It’s just that, fundamentally, both those shows had a good heart. Can’t see or feel any heart in this one.

  11. Credit to the ABC publicity department and obviously Lilley’s previous work for the result.
    It will obviously drop as all shows do for week 2.
    Angry Boys ranged from a high of 1.36 to a low of 391,000. It lost almost a million viewers and still ended up higher than a League of Their Own. I think the kids will keep watching it but unless some plot turns up and someone aside from Ja’mie is allowed some dialogue I think everyone else might tune out.

  12. I thought Ja’mie was particularly bad. Where she used have redeeming features (maybe it was his other characters) now she is just nasty. I loved ‘We Can Be Heroes’ and ‘Summer Heights High’ but he looked too old and too blokey for the role now.
    It’s a shame as I really looking forward to this one.

  13. Wonderland was only 57k behind Hostages. And Ten’s top drama NCIS only rated 276k more. It’s reasonably well made and they cast the two leads well. Ten has budgeted on the local drama points from it. I think it is better than Winners and Losers.

    But it’s just not exciting enough these days to drag viewers away from other stuff, including their DVRs.

  14. I dont think ratings will hold.

    Like most was a huge fan of Summer Heights High but last night was no where near that level….needs to improve.

    It all seems like we have been here before and bought the badge last time……where is the new fresh ideas from this guy?

  17. Ten made a mistake pre ordering 22 eps of Wonderland. It continues to shed viewers every week. I would say it will continue through the summer months and won’t be seen come Feb next year when ratings start again.

  18. Ja’mie – nowhere near as good as “Summer Heights High”, but much better than “Angry Boys”.
    Chris Lilley though should retire the character after this series.

  19. I didn’t find Ja’mie that good actually. It was the same old jokes and with her as the center character for the entire series, I think it will get older than it already is.
    Speaking of old, Lilly is now getting too old to play the school girl character which is most obvious when he is surrounded by the real teens. It wasn’t as bad 5 or 6 year ago with We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High.

  20. The lead in for Gruen was Tractor Monkeys. So the remote and a definite start time override lead ins. Ja’mie was awesome, so quiche!!!

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